Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

film by Schoedsack [1925]

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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. It chronicles the arduous annual migration of the Bakhtyāri people of western Persia (now Iran). This "natural drama" was part of Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper's filmmaking style, which focused on exotic locations and presented real-life events with a narrative structure. The film captures the challenges faced by these pastoral nomads as they move with their livestock in search of pasturage.12

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Ernest B. Schoedsack
Early life and work
Their first natural drama was Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925), which chronicled the annual migration of the Bakhtyārī people of western Persia (now Iran). While Cooper toured the United States with Grass, Schoedsack joined explorer William Beebe’s 1925 expedition to the Galapagos Islands as a cameraman. He met…
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Their first natural drama was Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925), which chronicled the annual migration of the Bakhtyārī people of western Persia (now Iran). While Cooper toured the United States with Grass, Schoedsack joined explorer William Beebe’s 1925 expedition to the Galapagos Islands as a cameraman. He met…
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